Mortify

What do we mean by mortify?

To cause to experience shame, humiliation, or wounded pride. intransitive verb

To discipline (one's of the body and the appetites) by self-denial or self-inflicted privation, especially for religious reasons. intransitive verb

To practice mortification of the body and its appetites. intransitive verb

To undergo mortification; become gangrenous. intransitive verb

To destroy the life of; destroy the vitality of (a part of a living body); affect with gangrene.

To deaden; render insensible; make apathetic.

To reduce in strength or force; weaken.

To subdue, restrain, reduce, or bring into subjection by abstinence or rigorous severities; bring under subjection by ascetic discipline or regimen; subject or restrain in any way, for moral or religious reasons.

To humiliate; depress; affect with vexation or chagrin.

In chem. and metallurgy, to destroy or diminish the active powers or characteristic qualities of.

In Scots law, to dispose of by mortification. See mortification, 3.

Synonyms To shame, chagrin. See mortification.

To lose vitality and organic structure while yet a portion of the living body; become gangrenous.

To become languid; fall into decay.

To be subdued; die away: said of inordinate appetites, etc.

To lose vitality and organic structure, as flesh of a living body; to gangrene. intransitive verb

To practice penance from religious motives; to deaden desires by religious discipline. intransitive verb

To be subdued; to decay, as appetites, desires, etc. intransitive verb

To destroy the organic texture and vital functions of; to produce gangrene in. transitive verb

To destroy the active powers or essential qualities of; to change by chemical action. transitive verb

To discipline (one's body, appetites etc.) by suppressing desires; to practise abstinence on.

(usually used passively) To embarrass, to humiliate. To injure one's dignity.

To kill.

To reduce the potency of; to nullify; to deaden, neutralize.

To kill off (living tissue etc.); to make necrotic.

To affect with vexation, chagrin, or humiliation; to humble; to depress.

To grant in mortmain.

To lose vitality.

To gangrene.

To be subdued.

Words that are spelled similarly to mortify:
mortify, fortify.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word mortify:
flesh.

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